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NNTP 'From' field and real-life names
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Newsgroups:
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
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Date:
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Wed, 17 Apr 2002 14:42:07 GMT
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Suggestion: Use the real life name when composing the 'From' field, for
e-mail and NNTP news-readers.
When a post is read from the web, the poster's real life name is always shown:
http://news.lugnet.com/general/?n=36525
However, when reading from a news reader like Outlook Express, the message
shows the 'From' name:
From: Brick Builder
Organization: None
Date: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 7:51 AM
Newsgroups: lugnet.general,lugnet.technic
Subject: Re: ...
The properties of this message show the sender's true name:
Xref: lugnet.com lugnet.general:36525 lugnet.technic:7335
Newsgroups: lugnet.general,lugnet.technic
Path: lugnet.com!lugnet
From: "Brick Builder" <brickbuilder@hotmail.com>
X-Real-Life-Name: Bert Giesen
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But there isn't an option to choose the X-Real-Life-Name field to be
displayed in the message (at least in Outlook Express).
I recommend editing the mail header so that instead of this:
From: "Brick Builder" <brickbuilder@hotmail.com>
It looks like this:
From: "Bert Giesen" <brickbuilder@hotmail.com>
Thanks
Cary
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) <snip> (...) I concur. Although in Pine it's relatively easy to change the headers I view by default, it never even occurred to me to try until just now. . .and I think I'm very rare (around Purdue, anyway) in knowing anything about (...) (22 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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